I've got a new Dell Precision 390 at my desk that I was planning to run ESX server on, but alas, it has SATA drives, which are completely unsupported. So now I'm leaning towards installing VMWare ...

Run applications on multiple operating systems including Linux, Windows and more. Evaluate and test new operating systems, applications and patches in an isolated environment. VMware Workstation ...

I'm getting a new system with Windows 10 Home. I occasionally need to run virtual machines on the system. Simple things like spinning up a web server for web development, or running CentOS instances ...